Brief Life History of Ella
When Ella Wheeler was born on 5 November 1855, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Marcus Hartwell Wheeler, was 46 and her mother, Sarah Jane Pratt, was 41. She married Robert Marius Wilcox on 1 May 1884, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1919 and Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1919. In 1883, at the age of 27, her occupation is listed as poetess in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States. She died on 30 October 1919, in Short Beach, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Short Beach, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Ella Wheeler Wilcox in household of ? M Wilcox, "United States Census, 1900"
- Ella Wheeler, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Find A Grave Index"
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1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
1858 · The Vision of Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes
Bernadette Soubirous was a young woman that born in poverty on January 7, 1844 in Lourdes, France. She started having visions of a lady that would tell her to do different things such as drink from water that was under a rock. She was also instructed to tell priests to build a church. As time went on she was interrogated by the police and never denied what she saw. People come from all over to Lourdes, France.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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